Sentence examples for down to essentials from inspiring English sources
Like his mentor Graves, he had learned to pare his life down to essentials.
Jean Paul Gaultier, as ever picking up on street style, stripped men's fashion down to essentials.
Like many artists in the twilight of their careers, he pared his work down to essentials.
He can cut through the foliage around an issue and strip it down to essentials.
He shared the punk urge to strip music down to essentials.
Pared down to essentials, Ms. Fisher observed, the story of her company is "a school uniform story".
He's both analytical, distilling songs down to essential parts, and whimsical in his fondness for funny noises.
Real diplomacy is now done from Washington, and an embassy can be easily pared down to essential services.
Project leads who can contextualize existing needs or foresee needs will keep a team grounded and whittle down to essential tasks.
She found that in posed pictures young men would wear full cowboy regalia, to give to a sweetheart or to send back East to the family, but unposed pictures told a story of clothes stripped down to essential work gear.
The intention of the series, as Rivette explained, was "to invent a new approach to film acting, where speech, pared down to essential phrases, precise formulas, would play the role of poetic punctuation".
